Disk suite question

Hi,
I'm a newbiee regarding disk suite, and I am trying to mirror a 36GB drive using this application. This drive was already loaded with data and partitioned in different ways. My question is this: can I still use disk suite to mirror this disk without loosing any of the data already loaded on the disk, or should I better set up a manual mirror.
Any comments and suggestions will be greatly welcomed.
Regards,
C.

Hi
The short answer is yes to the first part of your question. Not quite sure what you mean by setting up a manual mirror ( something to do with command line or GUI perhaps ? )
To be on the safe side, create a set of one way mirrors on the 36Gb disc partitions ie
metainit d30 -m d31
where d30 is your metadevice and d31 is a metamirror consisting of a partition of your disc containing the data.
Then on a new disc, create a second mirror and attach this to d30. This way you can be sure you
you don't wipe out your data with a mirror of a blank disc.
If in any doubt back everything up before you carry out disksuire operations.
regards

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